It’s fair to say that Ryan McMahon didn’t deserve to be given an error for this play.
On Sunday, in the early stages of the Colorado Rockies game against the San Francisco Giants, something peculiar happened. At the top of the second, Thairo Estrada knocked a bouncing grounder to third, which McMahon was in perfect position to grab and make the throw to first for the out.
Instead, however, McMahon missed the ball and Estrada was able to make it to first safely on a bizarre sequence of events. As it turned out, McMahon had the ball in his glove, but it went right out the back of it through the webbing. Not something you see every day in baseball!
No one has ever called #Rockies 3B Ryan McMahon "Dr. Strangeglove." But his mitt turned against him when #SFGiants Thairo Estrada's bouncer went right between the index and middle fingers for a second-inning error. pic.twitter.com/6xFsXfTzs3
— Thomas Harding (@harding_at_mlb) August 21, 2022
The ball literally went right through his glove pic.twitter.com/LVjMcWT52z
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) August 21, 2022
I don’t blame McMahon at all for looking perplexed after that play. Seriously, what could he do there? McMahon ended up changing out his glove after that play but he still obtained an unearned error for all that trouble. That doesn’t seem like justice to me!
